Bees For Sale

From mated queen bees to bee nucs for sale. We cater for all bees for sale at Black Mountain Honey

Honey Bees For Sale From Black Mountain Honey

Black Mountain Honey - Your Trusted Source for Mated Queen Bees and Nucleus Colonies

If you want to enhance your apiary with calm, prolific, and genetically superior honey bees for sale, from bee farmers with over 30 years of experience, you're in the right place. As we prioritise calmness throughout the breeding process, our mated queens and bee nucs for sale are renowned for their placid temperament and prolific honey-gathering capabilities.

From Flow Hive bees to National Nucs. Carniolan queens to UK Mated Buckfast queens. Black Mountain Honey is your one stop shop for the calmest bees for sale in the UK backed up with 5 star customer service. We don’t just send your bees or queens and abandon you. We are here to help at every step of the way. Our passion is your success!

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Black Mountain Honey - Top Quality Bees For Sale Backed Up With 5 Star Customer Service!

At Black Mountain Honey, we stock a wide range of options for purchasing bees for sale. We produce UK raised, reared and mated queens throughout the season to form an integral part of our UK overwintered nucs for sale. We also produce summer nucs using F1 Buckfast Queens from one of the best breeding houses in the world, Melita Bees. Our nucs for sale will fit into National Hives or Langstroth Hives (Flow Hives) and are produced in England and Wales. All of our bees for sale are calm, placid and prolific and we are so proud of what we do, we share it for all the world to see on our YouTube channel – Black Mountain Honey.

I can't recommend Black Mountain Honey highly enough. You not only get a super healthy nuc with brand new frames (which is unusual), but access to Laurence's wealth of experience. He's super patient and responds promptly.

Vanessa

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From the Highlands to the Isle of Wight – Our Mated Queen Bees Are Perfect For The UK Climate

At Black Mountain Honey, we specialise in calm, placid and prolific mated queen bees for sale that are suitable for apiaries across the whole of the UK. We have happy, repeat customers stretching from the Highlands of Scotland to the south coast of the UK. With a steadfast commitment to fostering tranquillity in our breeding practices, our mated queen bees are celebrated for their gentle demeanour and impressive honey-producing abilities. Discover the remarkable impact of our queen honey bees for sale and revolutionise your beekeeping journey today.

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Buy UK Bees From BMH

At Black Mountain Honey, we take pride in offering a diverse selection of bees for sale, catering to the varied needs of beekeepers across the UK. Our extensive inventory of bees for sale includes a range of renowned genetic lines and various frame sizes, ensuring you can purchase bees to complement your apiary.

Whether you're drawn to the calm temperament of Buckfast queens, the impressive strengths of Ligustica, the resilience of Scottish Jolanta queens or the curiosity of a Flow Hive stocked with Flow Hive Bees, we cater for you at Black Mountain Honey and back it up with 5 star customer service.

Our bees for sale are available throughout the season. Overwintered nucs are sent to customers between March-May. Summer nucs are sent out between May-July. Our imported queens are available between April to September and our UK mated queens are limited to between May-August. Need bees for sale? We have you covered.

With our commitment to quality and excellence, you can trust that the bees for sale at Black Mountain Honey are meticulously selected and bred for optimal performance & productivity. Buy bees today and elevate your beekeeping experience today with our wide range of honey bees for sale.

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Black Mountain Honey - Your One Stop Shop For Bees For Sale UK

MATED QUEENS

Our mated queen bees embody some of the finest genetic traits from reputable UK and European breeders. With meticulous selection and breeding processes, we ensure superior genetics to transform your apiary and make beekeeping enjoyable.

BUCKFAST QUEENS

Our F1 Buckfast queens are grafted from selected, pure Buckfast F0 breeder queens which have been artificially inseminated to ensure perfect mating takes places and the exceptional maternal and paternal Buckfast genetics are passed to the offspring.

BRITISH QUEENS

The UK season for mated queens is short due to our climatic conditions, but we proudly raise as many UK mated queens as we can in the limited season. Our British Queen Bees are used in our overwintered nucs and are calm, placid and prolific.

CARNICA QUEENS

Carniolan bees are prized for their rapid spring build up and calm, gentle nature. Much darker than Buckfast hybrid bees, these black bees are well suited to the UK conditions and can produce a bumper honey crop over the course of a season.

This is my first hive but my mum has kept bees for the last 30 years so I’m kind of used to them. These are really super chilled, not that I’m recommending this but I can happily carry out inspections and manipulations using a smoker but no other gear.

Marcus Ward

WINTER NUCS

We make our overwintered nucs with our UK mated queens, which are born, bred and raised within the UK. Our bees for sale arrive on 6 frames, with an F1 Buckfast queen and brood in all stages. Our nucs are calm, placid and a pleasure to work with.

SUMMER NUCS

We make our summer nucs with F1 Buckfast queens from Melita Bees. Our summer nucs will arrive on 6 frames, with an F1 Buckfast queen and brood in all stages. Our summer nucs are available between May to July and arrive in a Paynes poly nuc.

NATIONAL NUCS

Both our summer and overwintered nucs for sale are available on the UK standard National format. Nucs arrives on 6 frames inside a poly nuc worth £75 and includes free UK delivery. Keep this in mind when comparing us to 5 frame correx nucs.

FLOW HIVE NUCS

If you have a Flow Hive and want Flow Hive bees, Langstroth nucs are for you. Our Langstroth nucs for sale also available with UK or Welsh mated queen bees and generally sell out very fast as they are only made in limited numbers throughout the season.

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Our website, powered by WIX, ensures a super-fast and secure ordering experience. We support fast checkouts with Google/Apple Pay to make ordering as simple as possible and accept all major credit/debit cards for your convenience.

Fast Delivery

Enjoy the convenience of the late delivery cutoff time. Orders placed before 4 pm Monday to Friday qualify for same-day shipping via Royal Mail Special Delivery. Rest assured, your queens will arrive within 24 hours, with Saturday delivery at no extra charge.

Customer Service

At Black Mountain Honey, our commitment goes beyond the transaction – we don't just deliver your bees for sale; we support your beekeeping journey. We're dedicated to supporting you with informative videos and accessible customer service via phone, email, or WhatsApp.

Quality Products

Our focus on quality is clear. We provide the best mated queen bees that money can buy. Our pedigree F1 Buckfast queens will give you the best possible beekeeping experience and have the power to completely transform your beekeeping experience.

Fast service and the best queens ever I've ever had, absolute laying machines with wall to wall brood!

Andrew Dart

First class! Communication prior to delivery was very good and the bees arrived in very good condition. Asked for advice they were quick to answer and really helped me, my bees are now doing really well. Would highly recommend them!

Dani Beckett

Super impressed with the speed and efficiency of the order process. The queen's arrived healthy and have settled well into the hives. Where I once had unfriendly, aggressive bee's I now have placid and incredibly busy bees. Thank You

Julie Boyce

I’ve been keeping bees for over 30 years- and never have I had such gentle bees - these Buckfast Q are amazing- egg laying machines.

Martin Hutchinson

Absolutely fantastic service. Queens are extremely well produced with fantastic genetics. I have managed to encourage 2 people to also buy because I can’t get over how good the quality of the queens are and how smooth the service is!

Stuart Williams

This was my first time ordering a mated queen for one of my colonies. The whole process was so easy with ordering and the quick delivery time and at the end of it you have a very productive queen who lays very calm and busy bees.

Duncan Newton

Never a fault with the queens we buy from Black Mountain Honey, amazing quality queens with an excellent temperament, laying pattern. Wouldn’t go anywhere else!

Hutchy

I purchased a mated queen, had great support after receiving my queen promptly and safety packaged. Responded to my emails with regards to introducing her and what I should do with my Hive and frames. Great personal touch. Thanks

Ross Allen

I've bought bees from BMH for years and they've always been calm on the comb and prolific honey producers. Laurence is a fountain of knowledge and always happy to reply to emails and comments. I wouldn't buy from anywhere else.

Chris P

Have had two Buckfast queens. Fast delivery, lovely calm and prolific queens. Bees are a joy to handle. Highly recommended!

Madasafish

No Nonsense Review.... Best Queens Best customer service Best products Best videos

Serg Gio

Bought a number of Buckfast Queens, always arrived in tip top condition and have all been great laying queens. Super speedy delivery, great service. 💕🐝

Carla Smith

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